SF 524 – Is now the BH telehealth parity bill – NO, this Is not an April Fools joke!
SF 587 – MH tax funding bill
ALIVE:
HF 431 Audio only telehealth
HF 485 Supervision requirements for LMHCs including online supervision.
SF 354 Continuing education requirements and extensions for COVID-19
SF 461 Voting members of a MH regional board
SF 524 – Bed tracking study committee – now including BH telehealth parity
SF 532 Professional Recognition of the Board of Educational Examiners for LMHCs and ABAs
SF 587 Senate Tax plan
DEAD:
HF 731: Payment for certain out of state providers
HF 736 Limitations to Medicaid Claims
HF 773 Pursuing IMD Waivers
HF 784 Full telehealth parity
HF 818 Voting Rights of certain convicted persons
SF 389 A bill related to public assistance oversight
SF 526 Emergency detention of persons and access centers
SF 528 Reports of CMO, physicians, or MH professionals
| Bills & Rules Watch | ||
| Note | Name | Title |
| Audio only telehealth-support* In senate passed committee- alive | HF 431 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of audio-only telehealth or telemedicine by health care professionals.(Formerly HF 88.) |
| Supervision Requirements-support* passed senate committee-alive | HF 485 | A bill for an act relating to supervision requirements for licensed marital and family therapists, mental health counselors, and social workers, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 107.) |
| Outside Health Carriers-undecided* In house-dead | HF 731 | A bill for an act prohibiting certain health carriers from excluding certain out-of-state health care professionals from participating as providers, via telehealth, under the carriers’ policies, plans, and contracts, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 269.) |
| Limitations of Medicaid-support* Fiscal Note: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1216499.pdf amended to not include medicaid past claims with cost settlement – in senate-dead | HF 736 | A bill for an act relating to limitations on activities related to paid claims under the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 225.) |
| IMD Waiver-undecided* In Senate recommends indefinite postponment- dead | HF 773 | A bill for an act relating to a determination of the availability of mental health services in the state including the value of pursuing a Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 479.) |
| Reimbursement $ Parity-support* in house-dead | HF 784 | A bill for an act relating to reimbursement rates for health care services provided to covered persons by telehealth, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 706.) |
| Voting Rights – passed house and in Senate-dead | HF 818 | A bill for an act relating to the restoration of voting rights to certain convicted persons and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 231.) |
| Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa – support* Fiscal Note: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1215310.pdf in Senate- alive | HJR 11 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the qualifications of electors.(Formerly HSB 143.) |
| Continuing Education Requirements -support*- in house judiciary-alive | SF 354 | A bill for an act relating to continuing education requirements for persons holding certain professional and occupational licenses. (Formerly SF 163.) |
| Public Assistance Program Oversight – oppose* In the House-dead | SF 389 | A bill for an act relating to public assistance program oversight.(Formerly SSB 1125.) |
| Voting Members of Governing Board-undecided* In the House-alive | SF 461 | A bill for an act relating to the voting members of a governing board of a mental health and disability services region.(Formerly SSB 1158.) |
| Operation of State Government-undecided*- in the house-amended | SF 487 | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the review of state boards and the regulation of professions and occupations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1046.) |
| New BH Telehealth and Psychiatric Bed Tracking – support* -alive | SF 524 | A bill for an act establishing an inpatient psychiatric bed tracking system study committee.(Formerly SSB 1227.) |
| Emergency Detention – undecided* In the Senate fiscal note https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1216183.pdf – amended to be approps for more crisis services https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&ba=SF%20526 – Dead | SF 526 | A bill for an act relating to the emergency detention of a person experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis and access centers.(Formerly SSB 1234.) |
| Mental Illness Reports – support* In the Senate – committee approved – dead | SF 528 | A bill for an act relating to reports prepared by a chief medical officer, licensed physician, or a mental health professional concerning the hospitalization of a person with a mental illness.(Formerly SSB 1229.) |
| Professional Recognition-undecided*-alive | SF 532 | A bill for an act providing for statements of professional recognition for licensed behavior analysts and mental health counselors by the board of educational examiners and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) |
| Mental Health Financing-undecided*-alive | SF 587 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government financing, programs, and operations, by modifying provisions relating to mental health and disability services funding, school district funding, commercial and industrial property tax replacement payments, and other specified tax provisions, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 1253.) |